Please speak at this week’s Zoom hearings on class size!

June 9, 2025 The mandated hearings on the city’s class size plan for the 2025-2026 school year begin tomorrow.  The Bronx hearing already occurred last week, but you can attend any of these meetings wherever you live, teach or your child attends schools. They each begin at 6 PM, but you can log in as […]

June 9, 2025 in Presentations, Testimonies & Comments, Uncategorized, Updates by

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List of schools receiving class size reduction funds for 2025-2026

The original DOE spreadsheet listing schools by DBN & number of teachers to be hired is posted here. “

June 9, 2025 in Reports & Memos, Uncategorized, Updates by

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Sign up for our Parent Action Conference Saturday, with Jamaal Bowman

Thursday June 5, 2025 Just a quick message reminding you about our Parent Action Conference this Saturday, June 7 starting at 10 AM via Zoom and starring the eloquent Jamaal Bowman on how to fight the Trump agenda, followed by numerous workshops on topics critical for parents, along with an action agenda for our schools. Sign up here to reserve your seat. Also, don’t forget:  Wed. evening, June 18, we will  be […]

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Please come to our Skinny award dinner on June 18 honoring Betty Rosa!

Monday June 2, 2025 1. Please come to our annual “Skinny award” dinner on Wed. June 18, at 6:30 PM. This year we will be honoring NY Education Commissioner Dr. Betty Rosa, who has provided strong and progressive leadership for the New York State’s education system for the last four years, and before that decades of achievement as a ESL teacher, Bronx […]

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Important vote on Staten Island tonight on student privacy

Wednesday May 28, 2025 Sorry for the last minute notice, but there’s an important vote tonight Wed., May 28, 2025 at 6 PM of the Panel for Educational Policy at the Michael J. Petrides School (715 Ocean Terrace, Staten Island). On the agenda is revising and weakening Chancellor’s regulation A 820 on student privacy. According to these […]

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Sign up for our annual Parent Action Conference, DOE’s posted class size plan for next year, and more!

We will be hosting our annual Parent Action Conference, co-sponsored by NYC Kids PAC on Saturday, June 7, from 10 AM – 1:30 PM, via Zoom. The Keynote will be given by former NYC principal and Congressman Jamaal Bowman, who will speak about how we can defend our schools against the Trump assault on public […]

May 21, 2025 in Newsletters, Updates by

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New revelations showing DOE’s continuing lack of concern for the privacy and safety of NYC students – please sign our letter to the Chancellor today!

May 16, 2025 1.Please read and sign our letter, already signed by several members of the Chancellor’s Data Privacy Working Group as well as advocacy organizations and NYC Council Members, in opposition to the weakening of DOE’s student privacy protections in their proposed amendments to Chancellor’s regulation A-820. If you would like to sign on, please fill out […]

May 16, 2025 in Newsletters, Updates by

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Urge your Council Member to require DOE to provide sufficient space for smaller classes!

May 13, 2025 1. The NYC Council Education and Finance Committees are holding a hearing on the DOE budget and the School Capital Plan a week from today on Tuesday May 20; you can sign up here to testify. The hearing begins at 10 AM but public testimony won’t start until the afternoon and you can […]

May 13, 2025 in Newsletters, Updates by

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Class Size Matters’ exchange with School Construction Authority regarding their lax governance policies and non-compliant capital plan

UPDATED April 14, 2025 According to Twitter and the SCA website, the Mayor finally appointed Elizabeth Bergin as the third member of the SCA Board, after leaving the position vacant for almost two years. Bergin is the the Senior Vice President of Research, Evaluation and Strategy at the YMCA, and previously served as the SCA […]

March 26, 2025 in Reports & Memos, Uncategorized, Updates by

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What I told the School Construction Authority board and how you can help

March 23, 2025 On Thursday morning, I spoke at the School Construction Authority board meeting, down in the bowels of Tweed, explaining how they have failed to fulfill their legal and ethical obligations to provide schools with the space necessary to comply with the class size law, and the requirements of the Public Authorities Law. […]

March 24, 2025 in Newsletters, Take Action, Updates by

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